ALPHACENTRIC GLOBAL INNOVATIONS FUND Class A: GNXAX Class C: GNXCX Class I: GNXIX

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1 ALPHACENTRIC GLOBAL INNOVATIONS FUND Class A: GNXAX Class C: GNXCX Class I: GNXIX SUMMARY PROSPECTUS AUGUST 1, 2018 Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund s complete prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund s prospectus and other information about the Fund at You can also get this information at no cost by calling ACFUNDS ( ), ing info@alphacentricfunds.com or by asking any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund s prospectus and statement of additional information, each dated August 1, 2018, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus and may be obtained, free of charge, at the website or phone number noted above. 1

2 FUND SUMMARY: ALPHACENTRIC GLOBAL INNOVATIONS FUND Investment Objective: The Fund s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation. Fees and Expenses of the Fund: This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on purchases of Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Fund. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and is included in the section of the Fund's prospectus entitled How to Buy Shares on page 66 and Appendix A Intermediary-Specific Sales Charge Reductions and Waivers and in the sections of the Fund's Statement of Additional Information entitled Reduction of Up- Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares on page 68 and Waiver of Up-Front Sales Charge on Class A Shares on page 68. Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) Class A Class C Class I Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a % of offering price) 5.75% None None Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) None None None Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends and other Distributions None None None Redemption Fee None None None Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) Management Fees 1.25% 1.25% 1.25% Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees 0.25% 1.00% 0.00% Other Expenses % 1.00% 1.51% Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses 1,2 0.03% 0.03% 0.03% Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses % 3.28% 2.79% Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 3 (0.65)% (0.85)% (1.36)% Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement 1.68% 2.43% 1.43% 1 Estimated for the current fiscal year. 2 Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies. The total annual fund operating expenses in this fee table will not correlate to the expense ratio in the Fund's financial highlights because the financial statements include only the direct operating expenses incurred by the Fund, not the indirect costs of investing in other investment companies. 3 The Fund s advisor has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses of the Fund to the extent necessary to limit operating expenses (excluding front-end or contingent deferred loads, taxes, leverage interest, brokerage commissions, expenses incurred in connection with any merger or reorganization, dividend expense on securities sold short, underlying fund fees and expenses or extraordinary expenses, such as litigation) at 1.65%, 2.40% and 1.40% for Class A shares, Class C shares and Class I shares, respectively, through July 31, This agreement may only be terminated by the Fund's Board of Trustees on 60 days written notice to the Advisor; and upon the termination of the Management Agreement between the Trust and the Advisor. Fee waivers and expense reimbursements are subject to possible recoupment by the Advisor from the Fund in future years on a rolling three-year basis (within the three fiscal years after the fees have been waived or reimbursed) if such recoupment can be achieved within the lesser of the expense limitation in place at the time of waiver/reimbursement and the expense limitation in place at the time of recapture. Example: This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated, and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be: 2

3 Year Class A Class C Class I 1 $638 $246 $146 3 $1109 $931 $736 Portfolio Turnover: The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. The portfolio turnover rate of the Fund for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2018 was 178% of the average value of its portfolio. Principal Investment Strategies: The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio of U.S. and foreign common stock of companies involved in innovative and breakthrough technologies across multiple sectors. The Fund may invest without limit in companies located anywhere in the world and, under normal conditions, at least 40% of the Fund s assets will be in securities of issuers domiciled in at least 3 countries outside of the United States. The Fund expects to invest primarily in developed markets, but may also invest in emerging markets. The Fund may invest in any company with a market capitalization over $50 million. The Fund s sub-adviser, Pacific View Asset Management (the Sub-Advisor ) employs proprietary bottom up research to identify companies worldwide with innovation technologies, such as robotics and automation companies, and potential for long-term outperformance. The Fund s portfolio will be composed of companies with game changing technologies in sectors such as manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, energy, healthcare, information technology, media and communications. The Fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., invest more than 25% of its assets) in the machinery and electrical equipment industries, collectively. After such innovative companies are identified, the companies are screened and only those companies meeting the Sub-Advisor s quantitative criteria are considered for investment. Companies are sold when the initial growth potential is no longer foreseeable. When it deems appropriate, the Sub-Advisor may endeavor to hedge market risk by investing in inverse (short) exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ), market volatility-linked ETFs, and invest in cash and cash equivalents. These ETFs may be leveraged ETFs, which are designed to produce daily returns (before fees and expenses) that are a multiple of a reference index or asset. Depending on the Sub-Advisor s assessment of market conditions, the Sub-Advisor expects the Fund s net long market exposure (long positions net of non-speculative short positions intended as market hedges) may range from approximately zero to 100% of the Fund s net asset value ( NAV ). The Fund is classified as non-diversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act ), which means that it is not limited by the 1940 Act with regard to the portion of its assets that may be invested in the securities of a single issuer. 3

4 Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund: As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective. Investment markets are unpredictable and there will be certain market conditions where the Fund will not meet its investment objective and will lose money. The Fund s net asset value and returns will vary and you could lose money on your investment in the Fund and those losses could be significant. The following summarizes the principal risks of investing in the Fund. These risks could adversely affect the net asset value, total return and the value of the Fund and your investment. Acquired Fund Risk. Because the Fund may invest in other investment companies, the value of your investment will fluctuate in response to the performance of the acquired funds. Investing in acquired funds involves certain additional expenses and certain tax results that would not arise if you invested directly in the securities of the acquired funds. Cash or Cash Equivalents Risk: When a substantial portion of a portfolio is held in cash or cash equivalents, there is the risk that the value of the cash account, including interest, will not keep pace with inflation, thus reducing purchasing power over time. Emerging Market Risk: Emerging market countries may have relatively unstable governments, weaker economies, and less-developed legal systems with fewer security holder rights. Emerging market economies may be based on only a few industries and security issuers may be more susceptible to economic weakness and more likely to default. Emerging market securities also tend to be less liquid. Equity Security Risk. Common and preferred stocks are susceptible to general stock market fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and perceptions of their issuers change. Warrants and rights may expire worthless if the price of a common stock is below the conversion price of the warrant or right. Convertible bonds may decline in value if the price of a common stock falls below the conversion price. Investor perceptions are based on various and unpredictable factors, including expectations regarding government, economic, monetary and fiscal policies; inflation and interest rates; economic expansion or contraction and global or regional political, economic and banking crises. Foreign Securities Risk. Since the Fund s investments may include ADRs and foreign securities, the Fund is subject to risks beyond those associated with investing in domestic securities. The value of foreign securities is subject is subject to currency fluctuations. Foreign companies are generally not subject to the same regulatory requirements of U.S. companies thereby resulting in less publicly available information about these companies. In addition, foreign accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards generally differ from those applicable to U.S. companies. Hedging Risk. Hedging is a strategy in which the Fund uses a security derivative to reduce the risks associated with other Fund holdings. There can be no assurance that the Fund s hedging strategy will reduce risk or that hedging transactions will be either available or cost effective. The Fund is not required to use hedging and may choose not to do so. 4

5 Industry Concentration Risk. A Fund that concentrates its investments in an industry or group of industries is more vulnerable to adverse market, economic, regulatory, political or other developments affecting such industry or group of industries than a fund that invests its assets more broadly. Inverse ETF Risk. Investments in inverse ETFs will prevent the Fund from participating in market-wide or sector-wide gains and may not prove to be an effective hedge. During periods of increased volatility, inverse ETFs may not perform in the manner they are designed. Leveraged ETF Risk. Investing in leveraged ETFs will amplify the Fund s gains and losses. Most leveraged ETFs reset daily. Due to the effect of compounding, their performance over longer periods of time can differ significantly from the performance of their underlying index or benchmark during the same period of time. Machinery and Electrical Equipment Industry Risk. The machinery and electrical equipment industries can be significantly affected by general economic trends, including employment, economic growth, and interest rates; changes in consumer sentiment and spending; overall capital spending levels, which are influenced by an individual company s profitability and broader factors such as interest rates and foreign competition; commodity prices; technical obsolescence; labor relations legislation; government regulation and spending; import controls; and worldwide competition. Companies in these industries also can be adversely affected by liability for environmental damage, depletion of resources, and mandated expenditures for safety and pollution control. Management Risk. The portfolio manager s judgments about the attractiveness, value and potential appreciation of particular securities in which the Fund invests may prove to be incorrect and there is no guarantee that the portfolio manager s judgment will produce the desired results. Market Risk. Overall stock market risks may also affect the value of the Fund. Factors such as domestic economic growth and market conditions, interest rate levels and political events affect the securities markets. Market Volatility-Linked ETFs Risk. ETFs that are linked to market volatility have the risks associated with investing in futures. The ETF s use of futures involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include (i) leverage risk (ii) risk of mispricing or improper valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the futures contract may not correlate perfectly with the underlying index. Investments in futures involve leverage, which means a small percentage of assets invested in futures can have a disproportionately large impact on the Fund. This risk could cause the ETF to lose more than the principal amount invested. Futures contracts may become mispriced or improperly valued when compared to the adviser s expectation and may not produce the desired investment results. Additionally, changes in the value of futures contracts may not track or correlate perfectly with the underlying index because of temporary, or even long-term, supply and demand imbalances and because futures do not pay dividends unlike the stocks upon which they are based. 5

6 Non-diversification Risk. Because a relatively high percentage of the Fund s assets may be invested in the securities of a limited number of companies that could be in the same or related economic sectors, the Fund s portfolio may be more susceptible to any single economic, technological or regulatory occurrence than the portfolio of a diversified fund. Regulatory Risk: Changes in the laws or regulations of the United States or other countries, including any changes to applicable tax laws and regulations, could impair the ability of the Fund to achieve its investment objective and could increase the operating expenses of the Fund. Security Risk. The value of the Fund may decrease in response to the activities and financial prospects of an individual security in the Fund s portfolio. Small and Medium Capitalization Stock Risk. To the extent the Fund invests in the stocks of small and mid-sized companies, the Fund may be subject to additional risks. The earnings and prospects of these companies are more volatile than larger companies. These companies may experience higher failure rates than larger companies. Small and mid-sized companies normally have a lower trading volume than larger companies, which may tend to make their market price fall more disproportionately than larger companies in response to selling pressures. Small and mid-sized companies may also have limited markets, product lines or financial resources and may lack management experience. Volatility Risk. Using derivatives that can create leverage, which can amplify the effects of market volatility on the Fund's share price and make the Fund's returns more volatile, which means that the Fund s performance may be subject to substantial short term changes up or down. Performance: Because the Fund is a new fund and does not yet have a full calendar year of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by calling ACFUNDS ( ) or visiting the Fund s website at Advisor: AlphaCentric Advisors LLC is the Fund s investment advisor (the Advisor ). Sub-Advisor: Pacific View Asset Management, LLC is the Fund's investment sub-advisor. Portfolio Manager: Brian Gahsman, Portfolio Manager of the Sub-Advisor s Global Innovations Team, is the Fund s Portfolio Manager and is primarily responsible for the day to day management of the Fund's portfolio. He has served the Fund in this capacity since the Fund commenced operations in Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares: The minimum initial investment in all share classes of the Fund is $2,500 for regular and IRA accounts, and $100 for an automatic investment plan account. The minimum subsequent investment in all share classes of the Fund is $100. You may purchase and redeem shares of the Fund on any day that the New York Stock Exchange is open. Redemption requests may be made in writing, by telephone or through a financial intermediary to the Fund or the Transfer Agent and will be paid by check or wire transfer. 6

7 Tax Information: Dividends and capital gain distributions you receive from the Fund, whether you reinvest your distributions in additional Fund shares or receive them in cash, are taxable to you at either ordinary income or capital gains tax rates unless you are investing through a taxdeferred plan such as an IRA or 401(k) plan. If you are investing in a tax-deferred plan, distributions may be taxable upon withdrawal from the plan. Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries: If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information. 7